Charles Darwin

He doesn’t get as much attention as Charles Darwin. But the work of Alfred Russel Wallace is perhaps just as important in building evidence for the theory of evolution through natural selection. A talk Thursday night at the University of Alabama will focus on Wallace’s work. Dr. James Costa is a biology professor at Western Carolina University. He helped publish one of Wallace’s field notebooks that he says suggests his discovery wasn’t just an accident, as some have speculated. He’ll be highlighting that work for his audience.